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DNF at 50%.
I tried. I really did. The circumstances the characters found themselves in are horrible and I should feel for them and cheer for them to find safety and happiness, but I can't bring myself to care about them and about what was happening. ...more
I tried. I really did. The circumstances the characters found themselves in are horrible and I should feel for them and cheer for them to find safety and happiness, but I can't bring myself to care about them and about what was happening. ...more
Pachinko is a Japanese pinball game that sprang up sometime during the 1920s. While the game itself was made by Japanese, the industry has been dominated by ethnically Korean people for a long time. The profession of owning a pachinko parlour is deemed derogatory and is thus one of the few jobs that Korean Japanese are allowed to have. The title itself suggests the core of the story, which seeks to depict the struggles of three generations of Korean Japanese to find a place in the world.
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I loved every page. It was a beautiful but tragic and pulled at my heart. There were shocks that really left me speechless. I felt like I really knew these people and their lives. Even though it was a long book, I wish it was even longer I just wanted to keep going. I would maybe like to reread this and have a discussion on it some day.
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